The fatigues of war, especially the forced march of the last days, were very apparent in their persons.
Some were tall and slender with an angular slimness; others were stocky and corpulent with short neck and head sunk between the shoulders.
These had lost much of their fat in a month's campaign, the wrinkled and flabby skin hanging in folds in various parts of their bodies.

All had shaved heads, the same as the soldiers.

Around the table shone two rows of cranial spheres, reddish or dark.

Their ears stood out grotesquely, and their jaw bones were in strong relief owing to their thinness.

Some had preserved the upright moustache in the style of the Emperor; the most of them were shaved or had a stubby tuft like a brush.
A golden bracelet glistened on the wrist of the Count, stretched on the table.